At around 8:30 in the morning, the early warning alarm sounded in Sderot followed by a salvo of three rockets. One of the rockets penetrated the wall of the second story of a building. On the first floor of the same building, a day care teacher and five infants in her carescrambled to the nearest protected area, narrowly evading tragedy.

2. You may have noticed that I haven’t posted the audio recording of one kidnapped boy’s desperate phone call to the police. The leery recording didn’t really satisfy my own curiosity and its journalistic value is dubious.

There’s an understanding among journalists in Israel not to film or photograph bodies at terror scenes out of respect for the dead; the audio raised similar sentiments. Moreover, the recording isn’t clear, and most HonestReporting readers don’t understand Hebrew or Arabic. Eli Hazan is critical of those who posted it, arguing The media must set red lines. It’s worth some discussion:

It is simply too tragic to listen to a recording that shows our greatest fears about the three abducted teens were realized long ago. And to be fully honest, despite the curiosity factor — this is nothing but “snuff” , and it forces us to make a moral decision. This snuff tape only adds more to the sorrow, as it seems sometimes there is no end to the competition between media outlets. Can the editors please tell us what journalistic value there is to hearing the voices of kidnappers singing and celebrating, as was broadcast on Wednesday?

It is clear that for those who decided to distribute the tape: There is no red line.

3. International nuclear talks with Iran resume today in Vienna. Reuters overviews the main sticking points, while the Los Angeles Times looks at the pre-negotiation blame-game posturing.

Israel and the Palestinians

• The police continue their investigation of Mohammed Abu Khdeir’s murder. The situation in eastern Jerusalem is still tense, but violence hasn’t spread throughout the West Bank. According to the Times of Israel:

Police officials have told The Times of Israel they were investigating two possible motives: that Abu Khdeir was killed in a family honor killing, or that it was a nationalistically motivated slaying. According to officials familiar with the investigation, investigators increasingly view the killing as a revenge attack perpetrated by Jewish terrorists.

• Jerusalem Post: Two Palestinians were mistaken for undercover police and beaten by a mob in eastern Jerusalem.

• This is a one sick Israeli Facebook group, but I wish Big Media would shine the same bright spotlight on all the Palestinian incitement on social media.

• Is the latest violence the start of a 3rd intifada? Trying to draw some conclusions,the Washington Post looks at the history of the first and second uprisings. Unfortunately, the Post botched the history, blaming Ariel Sharon’s controversial visit to the Temple Mount.

Actually, Suha Arafat confirmed that the second intifada was premeditated; here’s the video which squares off the historical record on her husband, the late Nobel peace laureate Yasser Arafat.

• Portugal warned its citizens not to do business with Israeli settlements.

• Heh: The Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors to Ireland were both published in today’s letters to the editor section at the Irish Times. Both were decrying the paper’s recent coverage. To any journalist out there snickering that the Times is doing something right if both sides are upset, here’s why you’re wrong.

Rest O’ the Roundup

This was the first time in over three years of the Syrian civil war that a Jewish family has left the war-torn country for Israel. They made the secretive journey in a number of tranches until they reunited before with the family just before Independence Day at the beginning of May this year.

The story has been known for some time now, but because the operation was still taking place, it was put under censor. Even now, the story’s full details can not be published.

• As ISIS gains threaten the region, Saudi Arabia deployed 30,000 troops to its border with Iraq. The move came after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from their positions along the 500 mile border. More at Reuters.

Is this a replay of the “PILLAR OF CRAP” pulled by Nethanyahu two years ago. keeping the IDF
camped for about a month at the gates to Gaza….
As to the “Cabinet mulling what action to take on Gaza” it will “MULL” as it did when the planes
of the ENTEBBE rescue operation were reaching the “non-return” spot…!!!!!!!!
When in the world will the Jewish people shake off ONCE AND FOR ALL the goddamned GHETTO JEW mentality is a matter that defies even EINSTEIN’s intelligence…!!!!!!!!!!

The value of the tape of the momzerim singing and laughing is that it makes vivid their true character as self-debased (words fail me). There is no way they can be painted as heroic freedom fighters. Their reaction sets the mark of Cain on them.

Don Lemmon of CNN on Tuesday ask Israeli ambassador to the US if he had any proof that Hamas kidnapped the 3 teenagers,but on Wednesday when the Arab youth was found dead he took it for granted that it was revenge for the kidnapping done by Israelis .